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Give nowWe champion folk music and dance at the heart of cultural life, all across England. Can you support the folk arts with a donation today?
We champion folk music and dance at the heart of cultural life, all across England. Can you support the folk arts with a donation today?
Hobby Horses have been recorded as part of carnivals, processions, folk plays, folk dances, calendar customs and rituals since Medieval times, throughout Europe.
Thousands watch them whirl and cavort through the streets of Padstow, Minehead and Combe Martin in the West Country every May.
There are various kinds of hobby horses; they can be two-legged horses or other mock animals.
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